u/lottievenus

sorry i am posting again in here, but im writing an essay for my masters centred around one of Will’s old blog posts. I recently DMed him to ask him some questions for my essay (not about the blog post, though I did tell him about it, but questions about the essay’s actual subject matter, which is audience and interpretation, how responsible the artist is for what consumers ‘get’ from their work, etc).
i was wondering if anyone on here has had a response from him in the past?
him answering my questions isn’t super necessary but it would be incredible!

just to add: he has about 3 weeks to reply before essay is due which isn’t a lot of time

I know about the allegations (I say allegations, everyone knows that shit happened) but I just wanted to have a sort of conversation with older fans why there is hardly any AF fan base on other platforms now?

I’m 23 but I only got into AF this year so I don’t know a lot about the community. In comparison to pre-split panic, they still have a huge fan base on places like pinterest and tumblr even though they haven’t been a ‘band’ since 2009.

Reading old magazines, AF are mentioned a lot. I never realised how famous they were back in the 2000s. Though panic isn’t mentioned at all.

I was just wondering if anyone who knows more about AF could tell me why this is?

I compare them to panic because imo their first album is very similar in vibes to panics afycso and both bands released albums around the same years. It just seems strange there are so many new panic fans from younger generations but none for AF (even though they were technically musically better than panic bc the members of panic were so young).

Is it just because of the allegations? Or is there something else?

Hey! I've been trying to access the old AF website through the wayback machine, but I can only see the text in the blog posts and the parts with pics just load and load. Does anyone have an archive of the photos/know if theres anything I can do to access the pics from the old site? I'm only on a macbook, maybe I will try from the PC at work, though I tried from my sisters Dell laptop and still the same result.

Main thing I want is the photos from the site, accessing the site is just a bonus, thank you!!

EDIT: Here are the pics I have been able to uncover from their 2003 site, I posted them to tumblr along with the old mp3s if anyone's interested: https://www.tumblr.com/kidsaredyingoutinthesnow/816089223715274752/stuff-ive-found-on-old-af-website-through-the?source=share